Sioned Jones recently received a 12-month suspended sentence after she was found guilty of stealing €500 worth of Sitka spruce belonging to Coillte after she used a chainsaw to fell over 200 trees at a forest in Co Cork. Following a trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court last February Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin directed that the jury find Ms Jones not guilty of criminal damage of a Coillte forest near her home in Maughnaclea, Kealkill. Ms Jones says she removed the spruce because she was protecting the environment. She had replaced them with broad-leaf Irish trees.
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